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What's the Moon Like Around the World?
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A great deal of confusion arises from the lack of understanding about the Moon’s journey around the Earth and its apparent shape changes. This investigation is aimed at confronting this confusion by looking at the Earth…
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How Would a Magnet Work on the Moon?
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about magnetism. It is designed to reveal whether students think gravity has an effect on magnetism. Before using the probe, it’s important that students…
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Visual Literacy in Earth Science: Phases of the Moon
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Chapters 6, 7, and 8 are practice chapters. Each chapter provides the appropriate content standards for grades K-4 and 5-8 and several partial lessons and each follows the same format but addresses a different content…
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Next Time You See The Moon sample
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This sample chapter from Next Time You See The Moon focuses on the Moon's changing shapes and the many phases of the Moon. If you keep track of the Moon phases for a while, you will discover that it takes about…
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Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions
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The Sun, the Moon, and the Earth Together: Phases, Eclipses, and More
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This chapter adds a third cycle of importance in astronomy (and human culture): the revolution of the Moon around the Earth. The chapter starts with a simple challenge for the students: putting a series of lunar…
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Earth-Moon Scaling: Measurements and Magnitudes Matter
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Learners are surprised to learn that most textbook illustrations incorrectly represent the relative sizes and/or distance between Earth and its single moon. Although these and other visual representations of our solar…
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Why Does the Moon Look Like That Again?
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Technology and visual representations offer many ways to engage students in active inquiry. In this article students use planetarium software to gather data about the Moon.
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A first-grade research project incorporates trade books and challenges misconceptions.
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